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About ESG

Dr. Robert John Chandran	Robert is a Tropical Forest Ecologist presently a Fellow at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE). His research and teaching interests are on the diversity, assembly, and function of tropical forest tree communities, tropical forest ecology and management, conservation biology, and restoration ecology. He earned his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, researching a tropical dry deciduous forest tree community in Mudumalai, southern India. Thereafter he worked with the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (USA), the Department. of Botany, University of Georgia, Athens, USA and the Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, researching tropical forests in several countries of the world. Robert received his undergraduate degree from St. Joseph's College, Bangalore, and his masters degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Arthur Pereira	Arthur is an active human rights activist in Mangalore and has successfully led the resistance of Dalit and minority communities against the expansion of the Bajpe airport for over a decade now, on grounds that the project is techno-economically unfeasible and environmentally and socially unjust. He is well versed on matters relating to Land Acquisition and has helped hundreds of farmers to benefit from the provisions of Land Reforms Act.
Madhusudhan Kopparam	Madhu is a communications and branding consultant, currently based in Belgium. He is remotely involved in a variety of environmental and animal rights campaigns and holds a Masters degree in Mass Communications from Bangalore University and an MBA from the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Belgium.
Nagini Prasad	Nagini has corporate work experience with Andersen Consulting, and a variety of work exposures to NGOs in the Washington DC area. She assists in research work related to ESG's campaigns and comparative assessment of environmental decision-making. She is also a volunteer of the Association for India's Development. She holds an M.S. in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology from the University of Maryland, USA having achieved a Graduate Degree in Economics from Macquarie University, Australia.
Dr. Ananth Chikatur	Ananth is an active volunteer in the Association for India’s Development, USA and Asha, USA. His interest areas include people’s movements on environmental and social justice issues and alternative energy technologies. He holds a Ph. D. in Experimental Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Personal website
Dr. Subramanya Sastry	Subbu has maintained the online support site for the Narmada Bachao Andolan, www.narmada.org for a couple of years and has also been a volunteer with Asha, USA. His interests include various people's initiatives in environmental and social justice issues. He holds a Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.